Year 8/9 sixty second film project

Key stage 3 Spring term 60 second film project
Date
Aims
Task
Assessment
Week One
Introduction media and new media technologies and film making vocabulary to students
Mise en scene horror stills.
Introduce 60 second film project. The filming is to be done on mobile phones and then up loaded onto Drama Blog. Give out a handout of media terminology. Bring your mobile phone to this lesson.
Discussion of technical capabilities 2meg camera Bluetooth or usb connection
The films will be in the genre of horror.
In groups create freeze frames of horror stories and photograph them.
Evaluate the effectiveness and what emotions and stories the freeze frames evoke.
Create a 60 second scene starting from the freeze frame
Present scenes
· listening skills
· work in groups
· media skills
· allocate one member of the group to write up assessment of lesson on Drama blog.
Week Two
To understand the differences between drama and filmmaking in story telling techniques
· storyboarding quick debrief
· camera work in role as director taking images on mobile phones and they share why the victim the killer, the hero. In arts and sciences only not outside.
· Discuss what makes a good horror movie. What film techniques do they use?
· Discuss the scenes from last lesson and discuss how they could be filmed, what differences would they make, when filming.
· In groups story board a 60 second horror trailer for a movie.
· Present and explain the types of shots they would use
· listening skills
· work in groups
· improvisation skills
· techniques in storytelling
· Allocate one member of the group to write up assessment of lesson on Drama blog.
Week Three
To create a production team ,understand and start the filming process in groups
· In groups create a production team,
· Camera man (mobile phone)
· Director
· actors
· create shooting schedule film storyboard
· film techniques
· work in groups
· listening skills
· Allocate one member of the group to write up assessment of lesson on Drama blog.
Week Four
To create and film 60 second films
· Complete storyboard and start filming in groups
· Watch each others footage if possible
· Groups start downloading video and editing
· work in groups
· listening skills
· writing skills
· computer skills/editing skills
· Allocate one member of the group to write up assessment of lesson on Drama blog.

Week Five
To complete filming and download and edit films
· Complete films and download and edit films
· Upload films onto blog
· work in groups
· listening skills
· writing skills
· computer skills/editing skills
Allocate one member of the group to write up assessment of lesson on Drama blog.
Week Six
Presentation of films
· present the films to each other and see other groups work
· evaluate their own and others work, orally and written/ peer and self assessment of the project.
· work in groups
· listening skills
· writing skills
· computer skills/editing skills
· Allocate one member of the group to write up assessment of lesson on Drama blog.